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I maintain a less featureful but easier to use and less janky Loom implementation as an Obsidian plugin: https://github.com/cosmicoptima/loom

(Why Obsidian? Because then I don't have to write a text editor from scratch, and because one can then combine it with other plugins. Also because I intended for this implementation to work on mobile, but getting the UX right for that is annoying so it isn't supported right now.)

davinci-002 is a good publicly available model to start with. Weaving takes practice if you want something very specific.


How do you use it in your workflow?


i create new notes, put interesting and shiny texts in them, and weave from them for fun and intellectual or aesthetic inspiration


How do you handle the branches, variations? Like the leaf nodes? Do you use it to compare possible paths then when you decide you prune them?


What is the difference?


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  Technologies: Python, Haskell, Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQLite, Redis
  Résumé/CV: https://github.com/cosmicoptima/cosmicoptima/raw/main/resume.pdf
  Email: celeste@celeste.exposed
  GitHub: https://github.com/cosmicoptima
Hi! I'm Celeste. I'm 17, so primarily self-taught. I'm not looking for any particular type of work but am able to learn quickly.


  Location: New York  
  Remote: Yes  
  Willing to relocate: Maybe  
  Technologies: Python, Haskell, Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQLite, Redis  
  Résumé/CV: https://github.com/cosmicoptima/cosmicoptima/raw/main/resume.pdf  
  Email: celeste@celeste.exposed  
  GitHub: https://github.com/cosmicoptima
Hi! I'm Celeste. I'm 17 - so primarily self-taught - and am looking for a second job. I'm not looking to work in any particular field or role but am able to learn quickly.


What do you mean by "pronoun-hedonism"?


There is a style of hedonistic lifestyle/culture that usually comes with an anime profile picture and pronouns in the twitter bio. If that is someone's true "form" then go for it, but when its fake yuck.


Gratuitous anime pictures are also common in 4chan tech culture, where folks just don't pay much attention to Twitter or to the pronouns fad. So you can see that either way, it just suggests a kind of non-serious/poser hedonism all around. BBS/early web culture was a lot more focused than that.


This means that NFTs still don't denote much without a centralized authority. Doesn't that defeat the point?

(That might not make them worthless, since value is socially constructed, but it makes the claims of decentralization seem less impressive.)


All the trading hubs like OpenSea are centralised to the point that some NFTs will get blacklisted if a famous enough person in the community gets scammed out of theirs.


I often criticize designs for being overcomplicated. I wouldn't level that criticism towards this seal, though, and I don't have the skill to make it.


I would be interested in talking about it if you or anyone else came up with it. I find the seal very aesthetically pleasing.


But there's a bit of a problem with Ive's design demonstrating some historical ignorance.

At the top we have a crown, who's crown, the (imported) House of Windsor? I don't know? But at the bottom we have a white rose which is the moniker of the house of York. The house of York's lineage ended in 1499.

There was this thing called The War of The Roses, which saw the House of Lancaster and the House of York in conflict with each other.

If this was signed off by Prince Charles then he's as equally ignorant of the significance of the white rose. Even to this day it ruffles feather. The Tudor line pretty much ended when James VI of Scotland took the throne. Years down the line the Windsors were an imported royalty supplanting the House of Hanover at the turn of the 20th century, and has no direct connection with York or Lancaster sigils.

Most UK folks with the faintest awareness of history on the British Isles would spot this right away. We got this stage of English history rammed down our throats, even in Scottish schools.

In short, it's just another corporate logo that "looks nice" but the designer is clearly a bit clueless. I thought Ive would know better.


> At the top we have a crown, who's crown, the (imported) House of Windsor? I don't know?

It's not a crown but a coronet. Coronet are a heraldic device to symbolise noble ranks, including those of the royal family. In British usage a coronet of crosses and fleur-de-lis symbolises a child of the sovereign.

One could quibble about another detail: traditionally Charles’ coronet as heir apparent is displayed with a single arch. Crowns have two or more arches. That single arch is almost not there apart from the green arch formed by those interlocking circles of the seal.

Btw: It’s seems a bit silly to call the House of Windsor or Saxe-Coburg and Gotha “imported”. Queen Victoria of Hanover married, her son and heir took the “house” from his father, that’s pretty much it. What’s far more annoying was the patriarchal habit that “houses” go with the father’s line, at least until EIIR and Philipp.

Btw 2: Isn’t every British and English royal house “imported”?

Hanover was imported from Germany, based on distant descent from James’ VI/I second child and of course protestantism.

Stuart was imported, based on distant descent.

Tudor … imported and invented themselves, based on distant descent.

Plantagenet was Angevin, meaning from Anjou in France, because Geoffrey of Anjou married Matilda.

Normandy imported themselves, because of distant descend from Wessex.

Denmark is Denmark.

Wessex is homegrown, apart from the whole “sex” part.


The thing at the bottom is not a York white rose.

The design of the York rose is quite consistent. It isn't merely "a flower with white petals". In particular, these always have five petals; the one at the bottom has six.

Not every white flower is a symbol of York versus Lancaster.


It's possible to think that astrology is useful even if the positions of celestial bodies don't actually matter.


Useful in what sense then? The placebo effect?


I use it as a psychological projection tool. I use divinatory tools like astrology, tarot, or the I Ching to examine how I'm perceiving and processing my circumstances. Seeing what fits, what doesn't, what I want to fit, and what I want not to fit. imo, folks that say it "isn't real" are missing the point.


Location: Oklahoma

Remote: yes, ideally

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies:

- Python (Flask, NumPy, BeautifulSoup etc.)

- Haskell, Rust

- HTML/CSS/JS, Bootstrap

- SQL (SQLite), Redis, Neo4j

Resume: https://celeste.exposed/resume/

Email: parafactual@gmail.com

Hi! I'm Celeste. I'm 16 and self-taught - so have no professional history - but have graduated and am looking for internships or other ways to gain initial work experience in lieu of a degree. I'm not looking for any particular field or role but am able to learn quickly.


I said I use VSCode all the time, which I suspect is the reason I got access. (I never use VSCode.)


I said I use VSCode all the time and just got access, having signed up at the very beginning (I, in fact, use VSCode all the time.)


I actually do use VSCode (in addition to Vi and Vim) and I believe I indicated that.


Same and I also signed up right away. Still no invite.


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